Second, I would like to use grub, however i always used lilo, and after emerging it i had no /boot/grub directory. Yes, boot is mounted and it is rw.

So, I'm actually thinking of just leaving the MBR alone and whenever I want to enter Gentoo environment, just use systemrescuecd on usb stick and choose to boot exsisting Linux OS? I say this rather anxiously only because when I had Gentoo on an external hd, I could only boot that way. Somehow I couldn't quite get the whole dual booting to external hd and whenever I tried without the rescue usb I would receive a "kernel too large...layered (?) stack" msg...and ruined windows because i added lilo to the Winows(then 7 pro) MBR. Anyhoo, I could never get the rescue usb to boot the kernel on the "exsisting Linux OS". It would default to the rescue kernel. I'm guessing i bonked the kernel? but then the kernel would compile.

I only had Windows 8 Pro rescue cd's, so I was commited.

Furthermore, I am using the git-sources kernel: 3.11 so I could get better wacom touchscreen support.

This may or may not be helpful but I was forced to use the windows 7 bootloader to boot Linux due to windows issues. I don't know if win8 has the same features or possibilities. There is this bcdedit utility in win7 (is it still there in win8) or http://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/ to edit it...

I ended up installing grub on the Linux partition and made a boot entry for win7 to boot that linux partition. It would bring up grub, which I could subsequently also select windows again... it could be an endless loop if I set it as such...

Again I had to go the windows bootloader route because windows would not suspend to disk properly if it wasn't boot with its own loader..._________________Intel Core i7 2700K@ 4.1GHz/HD3000 graphics/8GB DDR3/180GB SSDWhat am I supposed watching?

Before proceeding any further, figure out whether Windows is booting in EFI mode or in BIOS mode. If the computer shipped with Windows 8 pre-installed, it's almost certainly the former, and that changes all the rules -- you shouldn't be attempting to use LILO or BIOS-mode GRUB on such a computer. See this Web page of mine for details on EFI-mode boot loaders for Linux, and see this page for information on how to determine your current boot mode.

Before proceeding any further, figure out whether Windows is booting in EFI mode or in BIOS mode. If the computer shipped with Windows 8 pre-installed, it's almost certainly the former, and that changes all the rules -- you shouldn't be attempting to use LILO or BIOS-mode GRUB on such a computer. See this Web page of mine for details on EFI-mode boot loaders for Linux, and see this page for information on how to determine your current boot mode.

I guess I should've mentioned that it did NOT come pre-installed with Windows 8. Because I borked the mbr on the disk windows 7 resided on, I had no choice but to upgrade it to Win8 because the laptop came with those cd's lol

But, I have seen the options for choosing "UEFI" mode in my bios. According to your website, and reading the volumes of the disk, it is GPT.